On 01/24/07, I wrote: > On 01/24/07, Fred Levine <flevine at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Can someone please tell me how the heck to set the column view in the finder >> window as the DEFAULT setting? Every time I change the view and close the >> window, it reopens in icon view. Small, but annoying problem. >> Thanks in advance for any help. > > Open a Finder window, set it up the way you want, click CMD+J, and select All > Windows. BTW, newly opened Finder windows, IIRC, always open in icon view. > Click CMD+3 to set it to column view and the setting should hold. Correction on my last. As others have noted, Finder->Preferences->General->select Open new windows in column view will affect new windows. My other suggestions should work for previously opened windows.